Continuing federal support

Beyond this base funding, the CHILD Study has received continuing support from AllerGen in the form of research and special initiatives funding, and from CIHR in the form of project and team grants. These CIHR grants are listed in the CHILD grants database, referenced below.

Total AllerGen NCE Investment in the CHILD Study (2005-2019): $14,753,500

Successful CIHR Grant Funding Totals (to date): $28,913,302

Total federal contributions to date (AllerGen + CIHR): $43,666,802

Funding partners

The CHILD Study has also received in-kind and cash support from other granting agencies, partner organizations, collaborating institutions, foundations and other sources, as listed below.

Total investments to date from other grants and from partner investments: $18,256,226

Alberta Health Services

BC Children’s Hospital

Boehringer Ingelheim

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)

Childhood Asthma Foundation

Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba

Environment Canada

Genome Canada

GlaxoSmithKline

Health Canada

Healthy Child Manitoba

Lois Hole Hospital for Women

Research Manitoba

Roche Ltd.

SickKids Foundation

SickKids Research Institute

St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation

Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation

The Centre for Understanding & Preventing Infection in Children

The Manitoba Developmental Origins of Chronic Diseases in Children Network (DEVOTION)

The University of British Columbia, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases

University of Manitoba, Rady Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto McLaughlin Centre

Women & Children’s Health Research Institute

Grant funding

Specific, focused research initiatives within the CHILD Study have been funded by grants, of varying amounts and with varying timelines, sourced from diverse granting agencies, as detailed in the CHILD Grants database.

Zulyniak MA, de Souza RJ, Shaikh M for the NutriGen Alliance investigators, et al Does the impact of a plant-based diet during pregnancy on birth weight differ by ethnicity? A dietary pattern analysis from a prospective Canadian birth cohort alliance BMJ Open 2017;7:e017753. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017753

Kamal M, Tamana SK, Smithson L, Ding L, Lau A, Chikuma J, et al. Phenotypes of sleep-disordered breathing symptoms to two years of age based on age of onset and duration of symptoms. Sleep Medicine. 48:93–100.

Citation

Forbes JD, Azad MB, Vehling L, Tun HM, Konya TB, Guttman DS, et al. Association of Exposure to Formula in the Hospital and Subsequent Infant Feeding Practices With Gut Microbiota and Risk of Overweight in the First Year of Life. JAMA Pediatr. Published online June 4, 2018. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.116

Information must be provided on funding mechanisms for sample analyses and the study completion

Evidence must be provided that ethics approval is available

Rationale must be provided as to why the requested samples are required at the current time, rather than after completion of the Study’s 5-year follow-up, with the potential at that time for a more efficient study design; e.g., nested case-controls, etc.